Comprehensive Workplace First Aid

(NZQA Units: 6400 and 6401, 6402)

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Comprehensive First Aid is recommended for all workplaces, higher-risk job sites, working outside or in cool stores, working at heights, with electricity or chemicals, away from the urban environment where it might take a bit longer for emergency services to arrive. Being able to respond first, while waiting for medical professionals to arrive, is essential to help others and save lives.

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Course Content

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Scene Assessment

• Calling 111

• Primary survey

• Secondary survey

• Care of unconscious patient

Wounds, bleeding and shock

• How to stop major bleeding

• Recognizing and Managing shock 

Medical emergencies

• Breathing Difficulties

• Diabetic emergency 

• Seizures

• Chest pains

• Stroke

• Anaphylaxis

Fractures Management

• Sprains

• Head injuries

• Spinal injury 

Hypothermia & hyperthermia

• Frost nip & frost bite

• Heat exhaustion and heat stroke.

Burns

• Thermal (from a heat source)

• Chemical

• Electrical

Poisons

• Inhaled

• Absorbed

• Injected

• Ingested

Scenarios